Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.
Jen McCormick interviews Brooks at Barnes & Noble University of Washington Bookstore on Saturday, June 27, 2026 The following conversation was published on June 23,
When I was writing Landscape in Lavender, I felt an urgent need to release my story into the world—even before I fully understood what it
Pre-Order on Amazon Brooks’s Substack – Landscape in Lavender is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free
When I was writing, revising, and later editing “Landscape in Lavender,” I felt as if I were simultaneously living in two distinct time periods—our current
Golden Gate Bridge from Buena Vista Park, San Francisco After eight long years of my writing and publishing journey, my baby, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER, will
“We show up, burn brightly in the moment, live passionately, and when the moment is over, when our work is done, we step back and
http://Landscape In Lavender: A Young Man’s Search For His Gay Identity: Kolb, Brooks: 9798896363804: Amazon.com: Books When society regards you as an outcast even before
Story by Dennis M., edited by Brooks Sherry Markovitz, our dear friend and next-door neighbor, was one of the Pacific Northwest’s most talented and prominent
When I began writing a Substack column, never did I imagine that I would devote an essay to a single hotel. Then my husband and
Wooden vessels in the Aboriginal wing of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. These vessels were used to transport burning coals from one end
